ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to add a new and powerful enabler of knowledge exchange among IT entrepreneurs by forwarding the concept of epistemic proximity. It finds knowledge exchange among IT entrepreneurs taking place along the lines of epistemic congruence most notably geographical, relational, and cognitive proximity based on a case study performed in the IT and new media cluster in Amsterdam. The chapter comprises a description of stage one of the case study, which performed among Amsterdam-based IT entrepreneurs. It explains that what extent epistemic proximity was found to impact the exchange of new business opportunities and ideas among IT entrepreneurs. The chapter reviews a hypothesis that specifies the effect of epistemic proximity on knowledge exchange and provides a description of the quantitative methods that employed to verify the findings from stage one of the case study. It describes the quantitative methods that adopted to analyze the role of epistemic proximity as facilitator of the exchange of business opportunities.
